Tuesday, November 5, 2002
so petty
Tom Petty Is Pissed. And he is right. Great article on his beef with society and the music industry.
woooo
This site is pretty fun. Paint by numbers! Haven't you always wanted to create your own mark Rothko?
what?
This bogus research paper by this guy, Alan Sokol, got into this academic journal, Social Text in the mid 1990s. In it he attempts to prove that "physical reality ... is at bottom a social and linguistic construct." Ha! A hilarious and illuminating story of the power of obfuscation.
Monday, November 4, 2002
Work v Prison
A forward from Kelly:
> Just in case you ever got the two mixed up, this should make things a bit clearer:
>
> IN PRISON...you spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell.
>
> AT WORK... you spend the majority of your time in a 6X8 cubicle.
>
> IN PRISON...you get three meals a day.
>
> AT WORK...you only get a break for one meal and you pay for it.
>
> IN PRISON...you get time off for good behavior.
>
> AT WORK...you get more work for good behavior.
>
> IN PRISON...the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
>
> AT WORK...you must carry around a security card and open all the doors
>
> for yourself.
>
> IN PRISON...you can watch TV and play games.
>
> AT WORK...you get fired for watching TV and playing games.
>
> IN PRISON...you get your own toilet.
>
> AT WORK...you have to share with some idiot who pees on the seat.
>
> IN PRISON...they allow your family and friends to visit.
>
> AT WORK...you can't even speak to your family.
>
> IN PRISON...all expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required.
>
> AT WORK...you get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they
>
> deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.
>
> IN PRISON...you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out.
>
> AT WORK...you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside
bars.
>
> IN PRISON...you must deal with sadistic wardens.
>
> AT WORK...they are called managers.
> Just in case you ever got the two mixed up, this should make things a bit clearer:
>
> IN PRISON...you spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell.
>
> AT WORK... you spend the majority of your time in a 6X8 cubicle.
>
> IN PRISON...you get three meals a day.
>
> AT WORK...you only get a break for one meal and you pay for it.
>
> IN PRISON...you get time off for good behavior.
>
> AT WORK...you get more work for good behavior.
>
> IN PRISON...the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
>
> AT WORK...you must carry around a security card and open all the doors
>
> for yourself.
>
> IN PRISON...you can watch TV and play games.
>
> AT WORK...you get fired for watching TV and playing games.
>
> IN PRISON...you get your own toilet.
>
> AT WORK...you have to share with some idiot who pees on the seat.
>
> IN PRISON...they allow your family and friends to visit.
>
> AT WORK...you can't even speak to your family.
>
> IN PRISON...all expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required.
>
> AT WORK...you get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they
>
> deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.
>
> IN PRISON...you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out.
>
> AT WORK...you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside
bars.
>
> IN PRISON...you must deal with sadistic wardens.
>
> AT WORK...they are called managers.
Icannot
Who should run the Internet? The body that manages a key aspect of the internet, Icann, has failed and should be scrapped, argues technology consultant Bill Thompson. Interesting info on just how in the hell the Internet works.
Sunday, November 3, 2002
eARTh
The Storm King Art Center celebrates landscape sculptures, those huge things people do in large fields that few people ever see -- until now. Some really good discussion of the relationship between ourselves and the landscape we inhabit, as well as the aesthetics of landscape.
pure genius
This guy rocks. In 1982 he tied 45 six-foot weather balloons to a lawn chair and shot up into the sky to 16,000 feet, was spotted by Delta Airlines jetliner pilots and eventually shot the balloons with a BB gun until he descended to earth near San Pedro, Calif., unharmed. The F.A.A. cited him for four violations of the Federal Aviation Act, including operating a "civil aircraft for which there is not currently in effect an airworthiness certificate." I love it.
unknown..
What the hell is this? Some weird creature found in Chile. Article is translated through babelfish.
lovely
Beautiful images from the Galileo Project can be found here. Galileo has been in space for 13 years taking thousands of photos and readings, but it is time he left us. On November 4th, the craft will plunge into Jupiter, depleted of fuel, film and functionality. Read the obit here. Where are you, Rocket Guy?
Friday, November 1, 2002
intense
I want a bar of this. Caffeinated soap seems to be the latest in techno geek/silicon valley accoutrement. Now you can start your buzz even sooner in the day! And if the soap isn't enough, you could just take the shower using caffeinated water...
nurture/nature
This is a good article on the latest work by Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whom I find incredible. This is what he does. Check it out.
out with the old
A liberal argument for a regime change in Iraq, by Salman Rushdie here. Wonderfully written. Via (viva!) metafilter.
Thursday, October 31, 2002
haha
A recent letter a friend of mine received:
No, I have no plans to move to california. This is why Dilo doesn't want to come to Cali-- he's already talking like a hippy. Imagine what he’d sound like a year into Cali?
Heres my guess:
"Dude, so I was having an out-of-body experience and almost astral-traveled away yesterday, so I grounded myself and got centered with the help of my spirit guides and then the phone rang, and sensing the negative vibrations, I threw the I-Ching and checked my numerology chart, nearly having a primal, but my energy was too blocked. So I did some bioenergetics and self-parenting,took some flower essences and ate an organic oat bran ginseng muffin, but my inner child wasn’t feeling nurtured yet.
To fix this, I had a Rice Dream Frozen Pie, which, of course, made me hyper, so I did the relaxation response technique I had just learned at the Self Healing Angst Tree Defoliating Center while listening to my subliminal tapes. But that left me feeling depersonalized, so I did some polarity work, foot reflexology, and past life regression, then rebirthed myself, and called Moon Beam, my body worker, to make an appointment for a Shiatsu/Reike/Rolfing/Feldenkreis/Swedish/Japanese deep tissue massage.
Unfortunately, she flaked out and never returned my call, so I decided to energize my crystals and do some positive imagery because all my visualization techniques and affirmations made my space feel invaded. So to get empowered, I got a psychic reading from Mother Heart Love around the issue of my assertiveness so I could feel my radiance and have some energy for my psycho calisthenics and inversion swing before my harmonic brain wave synergy session.
This made me more focused for my actualization seminar, holistic healing class and dream workshop, which in turn made me clearer for my Gestalt behavioral cognitive transpersonal Rechian-Jungian-Freudian-Ericksonian session at the hot springs, but my aura was too weak for my trance channeling group, so I fasted until noon to recharge my chakras.
At that point, I sensed my intuition was high and my cycle was focused, so I turned on my ion generator to open up for my Neural Linguistic Programming session. But I needed to have my pyramid recharged before my guided synchronicity meditation, so I got some craniosacral therapy, which aligned me for the fire walk between my tarot card reading and my sensory deprivation tank appointment.
But even after all that, I felt what I truly needed was a meaningful relationship to mirror myself, so I went to my personal shaman, and then to my guru, but they were no help, so instead I went to the Intensive Whole Life Earth Rebirth Cosmic Expo Symposium Workshop to find someone who really knew what was going on.
That didn’t help either, so I locked myself in a calcium coated Orgone Box and meditated until 9PM. None of it really worked for me, so I got stoned and drank a six pack of beer - and dude . . . did I feel right with the world!"
No, I have no plans to move to california. This is why Dilo doesn't want to come to Cali-- he's already talking like a hippy. Imagine what he’d sound like a year into Cali?
Heres my guess:
"Dude, so I was having an out-of-body experience and almost astral-traveled away yesterday, so I grounded myself and got centered with the help of my spirit guides and then the phone rang, and sensing the negative vibrations, I threw the I-Ching and checked my numerology chart, nearly having a primal, but my energy was too blocked. So I did some bioenergetics and self-parenting,took some flower essences and ate an organic oat bran ginseng muffin, but my inner child wasn’t feeling nurtured yet.
To fix this, I had a Rice Dream Frozen Pie, which, of course, made me hyper, so I did the relaxation response technique I had just learned at the Self Healing Angst Tree Defoliating Center while listening to my subliminal tapes. But that left me feeling depersonalized, so I did some polarity work, foot reflexology, and past life regression, then rebirthed myself, and called Moon Beam, my body worker, to make an appointment for a Shiatsu/Reike/Rolfing/Feldenkreis/Swedish/Japanese deep tissue massage.
Unfortunately, she flaked out and never returned my call, so I decided to energize my crystals and do some positive imagery because all my visualization techniques and affirmations made my space feel invaded. So to get empowered, I got a psychic reading from Mother Heart Love around the issue of my assertiveness so I could feel my radiance and have some energy for my psycho calisthenics and inversion swing before my harmonic brain wave synergy session.
This made me more focused for my actualization seminar, holistic healing class and dream workshop, which in turn made me clearer for my Gestalt behavioral cognitive transpersonal Rechian-Jungian-Freudian-Ericksonian session at the hot springs, but my aura was too weak for my trance channeling group, so I fasted until noon to recharge my chakras.
At that point, I sensed my intuition was high and my cycle was focused, so I turned on my ion generator to open up for my Neural Linguistic Programming session. But I needed to have my pyramid recharged before my guided synchronicity meditation, so I got some craniosacral therapy, which aligned me for the fire walk between my tarot card reading and my sensory deprivation tank appointment.
But even after all that, I felt what I truly needed was a meaningful relationship to mirror myself, so I went to my personal shaman, and then to my guru, but they were no help, so instead I went to the Intensive Whole Life Earth Rebirth Cosmic Expo Symposium Workshop to find someone who really knew what was going on.
That didn’t help either, so I locked myself in a calcium coated Orgone Box and meditated until 9PM. None of it really worked for me, so I got stoned and drank a six pack of beer - and dude . . . did I feel right with the world!"
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